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Front Row: Ai Weiwei, Everest, Leona Lewis

Ai Weiwei, Everest, Leona Lewis

14/09/2015

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Ai Weiwei, Everest, Leona Lewis

Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei discusses his new solo exhibition. With John Wilson.

Arts news with John Wilson, including Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei, singer Leona Lewis and a review of the biographical thriller Everest starring Jake Gyllenhaal.

Chinese contemporary artist and activist Ai Weiwei discusses his major new solo exhibition about to open at the Royal Academy of Arts, in London.

Jake Gyllenhaal plays expedition leader Scott Fischer in the new film Everest, which follows events of the doomed summit attempt of 1996 which led to the deaths of a number of the climbers. Mark Eccleston reviews. 

Former X Factor winner Leona Lewis on why she broke away from Simon Cowell's record label to create her new album, I am. 

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Producer Ella-mai Robey.

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